The strangest of weeks in the capital has left residents reeling as the unthinkable rapidly becomes the new normal
I spent the first half-hour of Friday morning looking up competing dictionary definitions of the word “persistent”. My wife had woken up coughing and we were wondering whether this was the start of it – seven days of hopefully mild fever and quarantine for her, and 14 days inside for me and my daughter. While I was Googling those semantics, though, and adjusting to the realities they did or did not imply, the coughing stopped, and we all hung, waiting to hear what would come next.
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